Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-08-04
AT CHAUTAUQUA.
The Schools, Lecturers and Concerts.
Especial Correspondence. sr

write about is what puzzles the special
correspondent. ID. ..a-
The Chautauqua season has not real
ly opened aud crowds are arriving by
every steamer. At these times the
docks are covered with hugh piles of
trunks-old trunks, new trunks, large
trunks and small trunks, travelling
bags, valises and boxes. A trunk is a
welcome sight. 1t shows that its owner
is not transient, but intends shorter
or longer stay, limited only by the
time or pocket.
Here will lie apile of mattresses,
there of lumber, which in few days
will assume the proportions of cot
tage, for above all, Chautauqua is
growing, and nearly every steamer is
sure to bring its complement of pre-
pared boards and lumber.
But, of course, to the thousands
throughout the country who are pur-
suing the Chautanqua courses of study,
the schools, form the principal and
most interesting attraction. With
their hundreds of busy workers, and
enthusiastic directors, they are accom-
plishing the most flattering results
Many of the classes, and those among
the most valuable, are free. The
psychology, DIR. Noah H. Davis; the
Spanish, DIR. VIM. ]. Knapp, and other
classes, are open and free to any one.-
The study of the science and the ex
periences of the mind itself, under
such an instructor as DIR. Davis, is alb
sorbing and intensely interesting. To
the truly thoughtful man there can be
no study more fraught with interest
and profit than that of the workings
of the mind and ear. Again, another
special course in the curriculum of the
College of Liberal Arts, which is doing
much, and which is destined to d.
much more, is the School of Business
and Practical affairs. In this depart
ment one may learn the ordinary forms
and rOutines of business and book
keeping, etc., in two or three weeks
time, hence being the cheapest place in
the country in which to learn these
branches.
Prof. Charles r. Wells, principal of
these courses in the Syracuse city
schools, is at the head of this DEPART
ment. The Chautauqua methods, by
which everything here is taught, are
the enlightened results of years of
earnest toll, patient experiments and
enthusiastic investigations.
For the success already attending the
different departments, too much credit
cannot be accorded the principal, DIR.
Harper, of Yale, Prof. r. S. Holmes,
the Registrar, and their able corps of
instructors.
Every man in the faculty represents
pre-eminentlV the best success in his
line, and no expense has been spared
by the assembly to secure only the
best known and most successful teach
ers in the country. The result has been
that during the summer session of the
college one may study under the per,
sonal supervision of and aid of the
ablest educators in the world, DR..
Harper, of Yale. Prof. Edwards, OF
Chamberlain Institute; Prof. Sarah A.
Emerson, of Wellesley; DIR. Richard II.
Ely, of John Hopkins; Prof. Holmes,
of Chautauqua University; Prof. Lyon,
of Harvard, etc.
Thus we have sort of cosmopolitan
university, combining all of the fea-
lures of the best known colleges, Yale
Harvard, Syracuse, etc.
Among the special or new depart.
ments inaugurated this season are de.
partments in Scandinavian, Indo- Euro.
pean, Zend and Gothic, Assyrian, Ara.
bic and Syrac, Egyptian and social
science, etc.
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1t is said that Chautauqua had its be.
ginning in the wish of its leaders fol
better training of Sunday school teach.
ers. But since then Chautauqua has
opened her arms somewhat, and now
manages to embrace and foster several
other projects, in fact, quite q number
of them. But with all of this, the Sun.
day school has not been forgotten.
The Chautauqua Normal Union, DR.
Dunning, of Boston, principal, is &C
complishing more than enough to sur
pass the most halcyon dreams of ever
DR.. Vincent, the father of all.
But with such workers as Secretary
Duncan, Drs. Vincent, Creegan, Hurf
burt, Russell and others, success coult
have been nothing else than assured
even from the start.
The Union now possesses the prouC
record of being able to say that some
twenty other assemblies in all parts O
the country, have adopted the sam,
course of reading as pursued by itself
or the Chautauqua Normal Union.
The program of the past week ha
been especially rich and valuable in it
contents.
More than one may think, upon frs
thought, depends the introduction of ,
speaker; and during the past two week.
Mr.. Geo. E. Vincent has most ably per
| formed this trying and difficult task
Mr.. Vincent is entirely unaffected il
manner and speech, and bids fair
from what we hear, to succeed hi!
father, the Doctor, in the Chautauqus
management.
Sunday, the 18th, owing to the seri
Gus illness of Bishop Mallalieu; of New
Orleans, DR.. T. B. Neely, of Baltimore
delivered an able discourse upon tn,
sufferings of Christ in the Garden o
Gethsemane.
At 400 DR.. Vincent spoke before thu
Society of Christian Ethics, in thu
Temple, upon the subject of leat
pencils and ethics.
He showed the importance of always
carrying plenty of lead pencils, and thu
jotting down of any especially valuable
or interesting thought or sentence
etc.
These talks of the Doctors are
always of q practical value, anG
adapted to the ages of the society
which consists of young people under
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